From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:12:06 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Revert to pre-25.1 behavior in ffap
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.1.91~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b5e03665155c841b775d2d0b97ed16396ffc918;p=emacs.git

Revert to pre-25.1 behavior in ffap

* lisp/ffap.el (ffap-lax-url): Change the default to t, to produce
the same behavior as in Emacs 24.x.  (Bug#25264)
Explain the trade-offs of customizing this in the doc string.
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diff --git a/lisp/ffap.el b/lisp/ffap.el
index c000066d8cf..c97c7624a60 100644
--- a/lisp/ffap.el
+++ b/lisp/ffap.el
@@ -162,8 +162,12 @@ schemes (e.g. \"ftp\"); in that case, only convert those URLs."
   :group 'ffap
   :version "24.3")
 
-(defcustom ffap-lax-url nil
-  "If non-nil, allow lax URL matching."
+(defcustom ffap-lax-url t
+  "If non-nil, allow lax URL matching.
+The default non-nil value might produce false URLs in C++ code
+with symbols like \"std::find\".  On the other hand, setting
+this to nil will disable recognition of URLs that are not
+well-formed, such as \"user@host\" or \"<user@host>\"."
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'ffap
   :version "25.1")